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Astrophotography – The ‘500 Rule’ Chart

July 25, 2024December 19, 2019 by Dan Carr

How long can your exposure be to prevent star trails? A handy chart for a ton of focal lengths to help you render your stars as points and not trails.

Categories Tutorials Tags astrophotography, stars

How To Avoid Star Trails – The 500 Rule

July 25, 2024December 2, 2019 by Dan Carr

Star trails are a wonderful way to represent the night sky with your astrophotography but sometimes we also want to capture stars as singular points of light. I’ll show you how to figure out how long your exposure needs to be to, using the 500 rule.

Categories Tutorials Tags astrophotography, night sky, stars

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